3/28/13

My daughter's dream world would be a giant
Candy Land!
She loves sugary treats!
I decided to try making a giant lollipop!
Could be a fun April Fools day surprise!

I took a bunch of cheap candy canes and unwrapped them all
And then put them on a baking tray...

Put them in the oven for about 5 minutes at 350*...
Then they soften up...I took them while still warm and quickly
wrapped them around each other on this foil platter lightly
misted with non stick spray...
24 candy canes later...
couldn't figure out how to get the stick to work...so it was just decor.

3/27/13

We eat a lot of eggs.
And we write messages or draw faces on all the hard cooked eggs,
so we are sure to get the right ones into the hubby's lunch!
Could do something fun for April Fool's!
Check out this Giant monogram I made with egg boxes!

I did an object lesson for some young ladies a while ago...
but it's perfect close to Easter.
I spoke about being clean and pure on the inside as well as the outside.
I hollowed out 2 eggs (I did more just in case they didn't work...)

I poked holes in both ends of the eggs and blew out the yoke and whites.

One egg I rinsed with water and left clean.

The other I used a syringe and filled it with a
water and cocoa powder sludge.
I swirled it around inside the egg...and taped
over the opening with some duct tape.
I let it dry overnight. Then I cleaned off the egg.

For the demonstration I held the top and bottom of the egg,
strategically covering the holes.
I cracked open the one that was clean inside first...then spoke about
putting unclean things into our minds and bodies...
and cracked open the filthy egg.
The youth and leaders were shocked to see the
thick (now dried) brown gunk inside.
Object lesson winner.

And last year I tried cooking eggs in the oven, to see these spotted creature eggs...
now this is not the way I hard cook our eggs...

Hope you know how much we love eggs,
but rarely decorate them for Easter!

3/26/13

We had lots of hot cocoa during the winter...but this was our favorite treat!
Dehydrated Marshmallows!
Could be a fun April Fool's day surprise!

Just filled the dehydrator with marshmallows....and turned it on for about 5 hours.
They will still be soft when you turn it off...then you just let it sit for a few hours.
They will harden up and wont be sticky.
They puff up.
Here's one before and after...
They are hard and crunchy like
Marshmallow Matey's or Lucky Charms!
We just bagged them up and put some
by all our Hot Cocoa fixin's! :)